Microsoft Patents Interactive Entertainment

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 4, 2003 @07:41AM from the getcher-patents-get-'em-while-they're-hot dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Embedded-Watch is carrying a story regarding the award of patent number 6,571,390 to Microsoft. The patent would seem to cover pretty much any implementation of a video-on-demand system that you (or at least I) can think of. Read for yourself to decide whether this patent either is not original work or is blatantly obvious to the most casual observer. The patent could certainly be invalidated by the courts on either point, but that'd take a fight in court that won't be cheap."

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Software Patents Rock! Go Microsoft! by nzyank · 2003-06-04 10:26 · Score: 0, Flamebait

And if you were smart enough to get software patents, you would agree.If you have software patents of your own and want to disagree go ahead and disagree, otherwise keep it to yourself and quit whining about software patents and Microsoft being evil and do something useful for others.